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The items on my todo list for the day got a very good scare, due mostly to my having underestimated the amount of work that would be required to complete work, but there are no show-stoppers hiding in the wings, as far as I can tell.
I am still trying to figure out the most likely explanation for NBC's statement the other night about Soviet Communism being a "pivotal social experiment." The way I figure it, this was likely caused by one of the following reasons:
(a) NBC was told to say that by persons representing—or purporting to represent—the organizers of the Olympics ("nice setup you have here... be a shame if your coverage got "lost" on its way up to the satellite);
(b) NBC admires totalitarian regimes without reservation, and would, if the occasion presented itself, describe Dr. Josef Mengele as a "pivotal medical researcher";
(c) NBC admires only certain totalitarian regimes, and in particular aspires to be worthy of the work Walter Duranty did to win his 1932 Pulitzer Prize.
Have I missed any alternatives?
Apropos of NBC, it apparently also turns out that the NBC correspondent who reported on near-instantaneous hacking of phones and computers in Sochi was nowhere near Sochi when the story was filed, and may have deliberately visited sites known as sources of malware.
Ye gods. And folks wonder why public confidence in the media is a bit... strained?
Cheers...
I am still trying to figure out the most likely explanation for NBC's statement the other night about Soviet Communism being a "pivotal social experiment." The way I figure it, this was likely caused by one of the following reasons:
(a) NBC was told to say that by persons representing—or purporting to represent—the organizers of the Olympics ("nice setup you have here... be a shame if your coverage got "lost" on its way up to the satellite);
(b) NBC admires totalitarian regimes without reservation, and would, if the occasion presented itself, describe Dr. Josef Mengele as a "pivotal medical researcher";
(c) NBC admires only certain totalitarian regimes, and in particular aspires to be worthy of the work Walter Duranty did to win his 1932 Pulitzer Prize.
Have I missed any alternatives?
Apropos of NBC, it apparently also turns out that the NBC correspondent who reported on near-instantaneous hacking of phones and computers in Sochi was nowhere near Sochi when the story was filed, and may have deliberately visited sites known as sources of malware.
Ye gods. And folks wonder why public confidence in the media is a bit... strained?
Cheers...
